In Response To The 4-20

kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
<div class="IPBDescription">thread. <(o.o)> <---yoda says.</div> i'm sad. it was a good thread. i think we should be a bit more lenient, especially since that thread wasn't all too serious about encouraging drug use.

what do you all say?
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    What was the point?
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    Christ man, you heard him right? Don't tempt fate.
  • Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
    It's primary purpose was still about the taking of drugs.

    If you don't want it locked, talk to an admin and see what they say.
  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    The only significance of 420 is that it is the Police's call # for the offence of smoking weed (or similar). So...what's to celebrate exactly, on the 20th of the 4th? That if you happen to be partaking in the consumption of marijuana then you're in danger of getting arrested?

    I'm confused <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> (not really)
  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    I don't think its a big deal to have a thread on it but conversely I don't agree with the idiots I hear running around WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 4:20 AAHAH
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Seph Kimara+Apr 20 2005, 12:22 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ Apr 20 2005, 12:22 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's primary purpose was still about the taking of drugs.

    If you don't want it locked, talk to an admin and see what they say. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    OR BETTAR YET MAKE A THREAD IGNORING TEH ADMIN'S WARNINGS IN PROTEST.
  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    lighten up. it's an internet forum. nobody is going to die or go to jail.

    still you haven't answered the question cold.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Rules are rules, and you have no rights. Quit bitching.
  • RatonetwothreetwooneRatonetwothreetwoone Join Date: 2004-03-23 Member: 27504Members
    edited April 2005
    bah yeah people are so annoying... didnt even realise today was 4/20 until yesterday when all these jerks at school go OMG YAY 4/20 IM GONNA GET SO WASTED...

    like.. i WAAAS gonna get high but now its just ruined.... thanks alot jerks!!

    whoa.. testament.. you and i are one post apart... i must find something to post in!!!

    my work here is done...

    :goes to bed:
  • Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+Apr 20 2005, 06:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ Apr 20 2005, 06:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Seph Kimara+Apr 20 2005, 12:22 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ Apr 20 2005, 12:22 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's primary purpose was still about the taking of drugs.

    If you don't want it locked, talk to an admin and see what they say. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    OR BETTAR YET MAKE A THREAD IGNORING TEH ADMIN'S WARNINGS IN PROTEST. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    YES

    AND THEN FOLLOW IN SCOOTER BLUE'S FOOTSTEPS WITH THE NS FORUM REFORMATION PLAN!
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Seph Kimara+Apr 20 2005, 12:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ Apr 20 2005, 12:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+Apr 20 2005, 06:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ Apr 20 2005, 06:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Seph Kimara+Apr 20 2005, 12:22 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ Apr 20 2005, 12:22 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's primary purpose was still about the taking of drugs.

    If you don't want it locked, talk to an admin and see what they say. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    OR BETTAR YET MAKE A THREAD IGNORING TEH ADMIN'S WARNINGS IN PROTEST. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    YES

    AND THEN FOLLOW IN SCOOTER BLUE'S FOOTSTEPS WITH THE NS FORUM REFORMATION PLAN! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Oh god yes.

    Ok Kida, I'll answer. I understand why you wanted the thread to stay unlocked. But Trev didn't even TRY to give the thread a point. They could have locked it for pure spam and off-topicness, because no topic was provided...explicitly.

    So yeah, I get it, but really man what is the point.
  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    It was spam technically. It is, after all, 4:20 twice a day every day so you can't really claim today has any special meaning.

    Just be thankful it was posted at all - I think that within the constraints of its subject (um...that its the 20th of April) all that needed to be said was said before the topic was locked.
  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    Where are the mods ...


    JAIL? BANNED!
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    <img src='http://collectingsouthpark.com/data/thumbnails/66/mackee.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
    drugs are bad mkaay
  • TheDestroyerTheDestroyer Tooobah Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18123Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Merkaba+Apr 20 2005, 12:25 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Merkaba @ Apr 20 2005, 12:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The only significance of 420 is that it is the Police's call # for the offence of smoking weed (or similar). So...what's to celebrate exactly, on the 20th of the 4th? That if you happen to be partaking in the consumption of marijuana then you're in danger of getting arrested?

    I'm confused <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> (not really) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Common mistake.

    The true origination of the name came from a group of people that would "light up" at 4:20pm after school. 420 is NOT the police call.

    <a href='http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm</a>
    <a href='http://www.phish.net/faq/420copcode.html' target='_blank'>http://www.phish.net/faq/420copcode.html</a>

    Anyways, drugs are a foul thing. By doing drugs, you are talking time and prevention money from important things (ala terrorist prevention? hmm...)

    The stories I know about stupid druggie busts. I'll let you know when I get my dads lazy bum off the couch on the weekends so he can write his book.
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    edited April 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-TheDestroyer+Apr 20 2005, 01:04 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TheDestroyer @ Apr 20 2005, 01:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Merkaba+Apr 20 2005, 12:25 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Merkaba @ Apr 20 2005, 12:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The only significance of 420 is that it is the Police's call # for the offence of smoking weed (or similar). So...what's to celebrate exactly, on the 20th of the 4th? That if you happen to be partaking in the consumption of marijuana then you're in danger of getting arrested?

    I'm confused  <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> (not really) <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Common mistake.

    The true origination of the name came from a group of people that would "light up" at 4:20pm after school. 420 is NOT the police call.

    <a href='http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm</a>
    <a href='http://www.phish.net/faq/420copcode.html' target='_blank'>http://www.phish.net/faq/420copcode.html</a>

    Anyways, drugs are a foul thing. By doing drugs, you are talking time and prevention money from important things (ala terrorist prevention? hmm...)

    The stories I know about stupid druggie busts. I'll let you know when I get my dads lazy bum off the couch on the weekends so he can write his book. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If it's a hit, do a book signing in Dallas and I'll come.

    Anyway Destroyer is right. Drugs are stupid and pointless. They lead you nowhere and some of my friends were crushed under their weight, with me almost going with them had I been an idiot and made the same choices.
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    A few of my friends in edinburgh turned to the pot side... I don't really bother with them much anymore. They're usually too busy saving their money to buy more weed or just too lazy (thanks to being stoners) to bother going anywhere or doing anything interesting.
    Heck we can't even play games without them stopping to have a joint every few minutes.

    If people want to mess with that stuff it's up to them but I don't think they realise how boring it makes them :/
  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->There's a time and a place for everthing, and it's called college.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Not that I've ever smoked anything.

    <_<

    >_>
  • ShoeboxShoebox Join Date: 2004-11-15 Member: 32817Members
    AHHHH Cold Nite... your sig is gonna make me go crazy.
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Shoebox+Apr 20 2005, 01:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shoebox @ Apr 20 2005, 01:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> AHHHH Cold Nite... your sig is gonna make me go crazy. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Complain to pj. It's not my creation. I just used it on his request..
  • arcticaarctica Shindiggery innit Join Date: 2005-02-18 Member: 41646Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+Apr 20 2005, 01:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ Apr 20 2005, 01:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Shoebox+Apr 20 2005, 01:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shoebox @ Apr 20 2005, 01:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> AHHHH Cold Nite... your sig is gonna make me go crazy. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Complain to pj. It's not my creation. I just used it on his request.. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    A lot of stoners are going to find that sig fun when they're on their high. The colours!
  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    edited April 2005
    I'd beg to differ and suggest that drugs are <i>not</i> pointless, though they are not a way of life as many seem to find them to be. Like most things, drugs are just a tool - they narf with your brain in a way I like to think of as 'stretching' the boundaries so they are more elastic and less dead-set, but the problem is knowing when to stop and just take a break before it becomes your way of life.

    Having said that I know many people for whom drugs would be a bad thing, but alcahol (also a drug, don't forget) also has very negative effects on some people, while positive for others.

    Like most things on the planet, drugs occupy the 'grey' space - they are neither good nor bad (with possible exceptions). Marijuana is deemed the most harmless of common illegal drugs, but even that has potential to screw with your life. Personally I've found the drug to appeal to my lazy nature, which is in direct opposition to my nature of wanting to do something with my life - hence why I'm trying to, excuse the pun, weed it out of my activities (which if you've ever been stoned for a deal of time you will find wonderfully refreshing I should add). <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    I should point out for anyone who doesn't realise, these are *my* opinions - even though I'm stating them as if they were fact, that doesn't mean I'm right. By no means do I mean to encourage the use of drugs either. Whether or not you decide to tinker with your body chemistry is up to you, and just because it works out for a friend or someone else you know, it doesn't mean it'll work out for you. If anyone should be even curious about taking any kind of drug then please <b>research it!</b> before using it.

    Incidently, <a href='http://www.talktofrank.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.talktofrank.com/</a> seems like a very informative source of information on this kind of thing, giving a rounded objective view of most drugs and is also a place to go to find help for any problem you might have. This is a UK site so bear that in mind.

    For the record, <a href='http://www.freevibe.com' target='_blank'>http://www.freevibe.com</a> (The US's equivelent of TTF) is a boiling pot of misinformation and scare tactics - if you want to be treated like an intelligent individual, go elsewhere.
  • BulletHeadBulletHead Join Date: 2004-07-22 Member: 30049Members
    Statisticly, Pot is less harmful than Cigarrettes for your body...

    just that pot makes you DOPEY as hell 0o'

    *shrugs* I can't smoke anyway... asthma
  • TykjenTykjen Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12552Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    all (well most of) the best of music, imo, has come from drug addicts.
  • BulletHeadBulletHead Join Date: 2004-07-22 Member: 30049Members
    Einstein smoked weed...

    betcha didn't know that
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Yes, and let's not forget those wonderful times bands like Black Sabbath could barely make it through a set because they'd taken so many legal and not so legal substances. Drugs are a grey area, as Merkaba said. Lots of good things (for some...) and lots of bad things (for most...). There's barely even a point in arguing it. Like most touchy subjects, people will dig in their heels, and punch themselves in the face repeatedly to defend their point with no budging. (Who was it I stole that from, anyway? The punching...)
  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    Fail to see purpose of this thread I do.
  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    edited April 2005
    To quote Tool quoting Bill Hicks, (or just to quote Bill Hicks I suppose)

    "See, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't think drugs have done good things for us, do me a favour - go home tonight, take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs, and burn them. Cos you know what? The musicians who made all that great music that has enhanced your lives throughout the years...........are real ***ing high on drugs."

    Bill's 'Positive drug story' on the news: "Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

    "It's not a war on drugs it's a war on personal freedom - keep that in mind at all times, thankyou."

    These three quotes taken from Tool - Third Eye (which in turn are taken from various Hicks material) FTW.
  • TykjenTykjen Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12552Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited April 2005
    agreed. it all comes down to *personal taste and self control, some makes it some dont end of story.
  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin-Tykjen+Apr 20 2005, 07:49 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tykjen @ Apr 20 2005, 07:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> all (well most of) the best of music, imo, has come from drug addicts. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    To be picky, I would make a distinction between drug users and drug addicts <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> It's the difference between someone who drinks alcahol and an alcaholic.
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